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• The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.

  Hugo Black

  Expression, Church, Principles

  "Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421". Writing for the court, 1962.

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• Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Mean, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.1

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• [Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

  Julian Barnes

  Hate, Stupid, Moving

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• You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

  Margaret Atwood

  Self Esteem, Refuse

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positive Thinking, Knowing, Safety

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• As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.

  Frank Van Dun

  Citizens, Legal System, May

  "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.

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• Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Successful, Men

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• We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Brother, Hero

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1972). “What on Earth Is an Atheist!”, Arno Press

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• I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Islamic, Rights

  Interview with Matt Cherry and Warren Allen Smith, www.secularhumanism.org. December 31, 1998.

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• Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.

  Tobias Smollett

  Golf, Weather, Justice

  Tobias Smollett (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)”, p.2137, Delphi Classics

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• Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Two, Different

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• Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

  George C. Marshall

  Country, Hunger Poverty, Political

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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• . . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Son, Sacrifice

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• Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Understanding, Mind

  George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.139, University of Chicago Press

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• A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Reflection, Individuality, Television

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• The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

  Rex Stout

  Opportunity, Satisfaction, Should

  Rex Stout (2011). “FAMILY AFFAIR”, p.40, Crimeline

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• There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.249, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

  Suzanne Vega

  Islands, Long, Tests

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• Immigration and travel certainly don't mean the same thing everywhere. Here in Cuba, the big wall isn't just the fact that it's an island, but the fact that we need an exit permit in order to leave, and the letters of invitation in order to visit another country.

  Fernando Perez

  Country, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic weapons of any kind should not be for sale in America. For that matter, toy Uzis should not be available for kids, either. There would be a minimum seven-day waiting period between applying for a gun permit and obtaining a gun.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Country, Kids, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the American people are gonna be reasonable with what do you do with someone who has been in this country for 10 or 12 years who hasn't otherwise violated our laws - because if they're a criminal they can't stay. They'll have to undergo a background check, pay a fine, start paying taxes. And ultimately, they'll given a work permit and that's all they're gonna be allowed to have for at least 10 years.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

  Marco Rubio

  Years, People, Cards

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.

  Leo Burnett

  Attitude, Nice, Taken

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• Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

  Jerome Bruner

  Understanding, Way, Structure

  Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.

  Paul Fussell

  Class, Facts, Weight

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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